Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night of July 17, 1918, ostensibly on their way to exile or imprisonment, the mild-mannered Czar of All the Russias, his German-born Empress, their five children, their family doctor, a chambermaid of the royal household, their cook and the Czar's English valet were all herded together in the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk) and sprayed with Bolshevik gunfire. That much of one of the most brutal murders of modern times has been recorded as fact in all the history books. A vital footnote to the bloody night has remained ever since...
Clean That Plate. Charles's workday now begins at 9:15 after he hangs up his coat and hat on a peg newly labeled "Prince Charles." At the double desk he shares with a London doctor's son, he studies reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography and science, will soon add Latin and elementary anatomy. At 11 a.m. he gets half a pint of free milk that is provided by the government, later pays 35? for a hot lunch. Though addressed as Prince Charles, he must obey all the rules, keep silent during the meal, and clean his plate...
...Doren tradition of self-reliance crossed the Atlantic in the 1650s when Pieter van Doom arrived in Peter Stuyvesant's Manhattan from Gravezande, Holland. The family grew up in the U.S. heartland, on the farmlands of Illinois. Charles Lucius Van Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography...
Although not widely read, the country doctor had a consuming curiosity and a determination that his sons should have every opportunity for education. When Mark, the fourth-born, was six, Dr. Van Doren quit his practice at Hope, Ill., packed off his brood to Urbana 25 miles away so the boys could study in good elementary schools and be handy to the University of Illinois. "Everything interested him," says Mark of his father. "Nothing was unimportant. He had no patience with error. Since this TV business started, I got a letter from a distant cousin who said he closed...
...country doctor had planned, all five boys attended the University of Illinois. Guy Van Doren, 69, is now a semi-retired consulting architect in Clinton, Mich., runs a prosperous antique business on the side. Paul Van Doren, the youngest, 57, is an investment banker in New York City. Frank Van Doren, 65, is a retired farmer and agriculture expert in Tuscola...